Portable motor support



H. w. RUNNING PORTABLE MOTOR SUPPORT Sept. 22, 1925.

Filed Jan. 31, 1 m

2 Sheets-Shwt1 PORTABLE MOTOR SUPPORT 924 )Jgu 2 Shouts-Sheet 3 Patented Sept. 22, 1925.

UNITED PATENT PORTABLE Moron scream.

Application filed. January 31, 1924. seen No. 689,712.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY WV. RUNNING,

a citizen of the United states, residing in the county of Grand Forks and State of North Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Motor Supports, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to supporting means i for electric motors and the object is to pro vide a motor support so constructed that it may readily be moved from place to place and secured to ri id objects with sufficient firmness to hold Tiemotor while it is runn'ing and driving various machines, as for instance on farms, Where, to avoid ob ectionably long driving belts, it is desirable to place the motor near a Well fordriving a pump, at other times the motor may be used to run corn shellers, eorn huskers, feed mills, milking machines etc, located at various places on a farm where electric current is available.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a topview of my *foldable motor support shown as folded for transportatlon or storage.

Figs. 2 and 3 are some of the folded parts to be gathered closer to Fig. 1 during transportation.

Fig. 1 is Fig. 1 seen from its lower edge.

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the support or bracket shown as detachably secured to an upright wall or similar stationary object and an electric motor mounted upon it.

Fig. 6 is a top view of Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the motor support standing on a floor or other surface as when it holds the motor in action without being itself secured to a wall or other vertical structure.

Fig. 8 is a horizontal section on line 88 in Fig. 7.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 10 designates a base plate having holes 11 for bolts or screws 12 by which the motor 13 is secured. The motor has a pulley 141 for driving a belt 15 which may be extended in any suitable direction for running working machinery (not shown).

The base plate 10 is secured by boltsv 16 upon an angle iron arm 17 which has one end pivoted at 18 to a body bar 19 preferably also made of angle iron and is adapted to be detachably secured to a stationary object 20 by lag screws 21-22 in keyhole shaped apertures 23 (shown in Fig. 1).

Secured to the main arm 17 a pivot 24 are two angle bars 25 and 26 both of which may serve as legs when the device standson a floor as 27 in Fig. 7 and are then detachabl y secured by screws 28 to the ends of horizontal brace bars 29 and 30, which are pivotally secured across eachother at 31 and have their other ends detachably secured by screws 32, one of them to the body piece 19 which in this case serves as a third leg, and the other-to a fourth leg 33 which is detachably secured to the plate 10 by a screw 34:. To niake the braces 2930 more readily detachable their screws 2832 are dropped sidewise info notches 35 in the legs (see 35 in Figs. 5 and 7). h

Fivoted at to the main arm 17 is a leaf spring 37 carrying a pin 38 which may stand idle on the flange of the arm as in 5, where the arm is fully supported at various elevations or inclines by the leg 26 serving there as a main brace to the arm by standing upon either one of several ratchet teeth 39 on the lower part of the body piece 19. Or, the leaf spring may be allowed to push the pin through an aperture 10 in the main arm (see Fig. 5) and let it engage in a hole 11 in the part 19 when the bracket or support is in the position shown in Fig. 7, and engage in a hole 42 in the body 19 when the device is folded up as in Figs. 1 and 4:, where the pin thus locks the device in folded position. When in said position for storage or transportation the braces 29-30 and the leg 33 may be placed to the side of the folded parts in Fig. 1 as shown by Figs. 2 and 3 but closer to Fig. 1 and may be tied thereto by a cord to form a single package, upon which also the motor may remain secured.

lVhen the device is used as in Fig. 7, or whenever required, a light brace 13, having a turnbuckle 141 for adjustment, may be employed between the base plate 10 and the working machine driven by the belt 15, or the brace may be connected in any suitable position to secure its service of steadying the support.

It will be observed that the combined leg and brace 25 has one end hinged at 45 (see Fig. 6) to a hinge member 46 which is pivoted to turn on the bolt 24, and to the other end of the brace is pivoted at 47 a piece of angle iron or shoe 48 having key-hole shaped apertures 49 and lag screws 50 (see Fig. 6) by which the shoe may be secured by either of its flanges to a wall or post 20 or 20 (Fig. 6) the lag screws may remain permanently in the wooden structure, the key-hole shaped holes permitting the parts 48 and 19 to be lifted away from the screws as soon as the latter are partly loosened.

The bottom end of the brace 26 has a notch 26 (see Fig. 1) to prevent its slipping away from the teeth 39. For greater safety a light chain 51 is secured at 52 and has its other end provided with a hook 53 which is placed in a hole 54 (see Fig. 1) in the brace 26 to keep the latter fairly in its position even if it should accidentally :be lifted or pushed from the tooth 39 supporting it.

The swivel joint 24 and hinge joint 45 permit the brace 25 to be adjusted in almost any direction for reaching some rigid object to which it may be secured, but it will be understood that wherever there is need of swinging the arm 17 up or down in order to thereby stretch the belt 15 after the device is set up, the shoe 48 should be secured .in such a position that its pivot 47 comes readily place any heavy object such as a sand bag orother article upon the crossed braces 2930* and thus make the device stand very firm while yet slidable on the floor for the purpose of tightening the belt 15.

What I claim is:

1. A motor support adapted to be secured to a wall and also to stand on a floor when so desired said support comprising a plate upon which to secure the motor, an angle iron arm secured to the plate to support it, a body piece pivoted to one end of the arm and adapted to serve as its main leg when the device is standing, means near the pivot for readily locking the arm and the body at a certain angle when in use, and in parallel folded position when so de sired, and three other legs supporting the motor-holding end of the arm and detach able horizontally disposed braces between all' of said legs.

2. The structure specified in claim 1 in which the horizontal braces consist of two bars crossed and pivoted at the crossing.

3. The structure specified in claim 1, in which one of the three legs is detachably secured to the plate and the other two are pivotally secured to the end of the arm holding the plate and areadapted to serve as braces for the arm when the body piece is securedto a vertical object.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature.

HENRY W. RUNNING. 

